Valencia. The culmination during Valencia, Spain, noted the
finish of a special deteriorate for BMW M in MotoGP. 2018 was a 20th season
for BMW M as “Official Car of MotoGP”. The BMW M Award for a fastest
qualifier is an constituent underline of decades of impasse during a top
turn of motorbike racing. Since 2003, this endowment has traditionally
been handed over during a deteriorate finale. One male seems unbeatable in the
competition to explain a winner’s car: record hilt Marc Márquez extended
his winning run in a BMW M Award, claiming a sought-after prize
for a sixth time running.

This year, Márquez was rewarded for his performances with a BMW M3
CS (combined fuel consumption: 8.5 l/100 km*; sum CO2 emissions:
198 g/km*). The central endowment rite took place on Saturday during the
MotoGP culmination during Valencia. The car for this year’s leader was handed
over to Márquez by Carmelo Ezpeleta, CEO of MotoGP organiser Dorna
Sports, and Markus Flasch, President of BMW M GmbH.

Márquez has already done story several times with a BMW M Award.
He won it for a initial time in 2013, apropos a initial rookie to top
a special ranking. In 2015, a Spaniard became a initial supplement to
win a BMW M Award for 3 uninterrupted years. He became the
disdainful record hilt in 2016 with his fourth true victory. In
a stream 2018 season, Márquez won a BMW M Award with a sum of
341 points, 73 points forward of his closest challenger Andrea Dovizioso.

By selecting a BMW M3 CS as a BMW M Award winner’s car, BMW M GmbH
has supposing a genuine prominence in a anniversary season. It is the
many absolute prolongation car from a M3 array to date. It takes just
3.9 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h. Its absolute M TwinPower
turbo inline-six-cylinder engine delivers a opening of 460 hp and
a torque of 600 Nm. A 7-speed M twin purchase delivery with
Drivelogic takes caring of a energy delivery in a BMW M Award
winner’s car. The adaptive M cessation in a BMW M3 CS guarantees
a tip energetic doing right adult to a limit. The sporty
coming of a car is highlighted by a paintwork in Frozen Dark
Blue, a 19-inch light amalgamate double-spoke wheels, a full leather,
fine-grain Merino bi-colour upholstery, as good as serve fittings
highlights such as a M steering circle in Alcantara.

“I can frequency trust that we have won a BMW M Award for a sixth
time running,” pronounced Márquez during a endowment rite during Valencia. “One
year ago, we announced here that my design for 2018 was to claim
this sixth feat – and we have indeed managed it. That creates me
really proud. Now we can frequency wait to get behind a circle of this
illusory BMW M3 CS. we wish to appreciate BMW M GmbH for providing a BMW
M Award as an fame for a fastest qualifier. This shows special
appreciation for us as MotoGP riders. The awaiting of winning this
esteem provides even some-more proclivity for us when subordinate starts on Saturdays.”

“We are gay with a successful partnership with BMW M, which
now spans dual decades. In BMW M, we have been advantageous to have a
clever and arguable partner during a side for 20 years now – and a BMW
M Award has prolonged dynamic itself as an constituent partial of a MotoGP
season. After all, we are presenting a endowment for a 16th time
today,” pronounced Carmelo Ezpeleta, CEO of Dorna Sports. “This endowment is
fantastic. Our MotoGP riders furnish tip performances any time they
take to a lane for subordinate – and what improved approach to honour these
performances than with an disdainful esteem like a BMW M Award? Every
year, BMW M GmbH presents superb cars to a winners, and a BMW
M3 CS continues this tradition. It is no consternation that a esteem is so
desired among a riders, and we take my shawl off to Marc Márquez.
Congratulations on this considerable sixth win in a row.”

“There are frequency adequate superlatives to report Marc Márquez’
successes in a BMW M Award,” pronounced Markus Flasch, President of BMW M
GmbH. “He has prevailed frequently opposite some really clever competition
given 2013 and valid only how gifted he is as fastest qualifier in
a MotoGP. The fact that he has now won a BMW M Award for a sixth
time using is some-more than only impressive. Marc has done story again
with this success in a anniversary deteriorate as a MotoGP partner.
Congratulations on this well-developed performance. We are gay to
palm over this disdainful BMW M3 CS today. This esteem is a token of our
appreciation for his superb performance. we am certain that it will
yield him with impassioned pushing pleasure – only like a winner’s
cars of a final 5 years.”

As with a scoring complement for a race, a riders accept points
for their positions in subordinate during any Grand Prix weekend. The
supplement who has picked adult a many points during a finish of a deteriorate wins
a desired BMW M Award, in a form of an disdainful BMW M automobile.
The record hilt is Marc Márquez, who has now claimed a BMW M Award
6 times in a row. Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner any have three
wins to their name. Jorge Lorenzo has been celebrated as a best
qualifier twice to date while Sete Gibernau and Nicky Hayden have each
won a endowment once.

For some-more information about BMW M GmbH and a impasse as the
“Official Car of MotoGP”, see: www.bmw-m.com.

* All total relating to
performance, fuel/electric energy expenditure and emissions are provisional.

The fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and electric power
expenditure total were dynamic according to a European
Regulation (EC) 715/2007 in a chronicle applicable. The
total impute to a car with simple pattern in
Germany. The operation shown considers a opposite sizes of the
comparison wheels/tyres and a comparison apparatus of optional
equipment, and might change during configuration.

The values are already formed on a new WLTP exam cycle and
are translated behind into NEDC-equivalent values in sequence to
safeguard comparability between a vehicles. With honour to
these vehicles, for vehicle-related taxes or other duties
formed (at slightest inter alia) on CO2 emissions, a CO2 values
might differ from a values settled here (depending on inhabitant legislation).

Further information on central fuel expenditure total and
specific CO2 glimmer values of new newcomer cars is included
in a following guideline: ‘Leitfaden über den
Kraftstoffverbrauch, die CO2-Emissionen und basement Stromverbrauch
neuer Personenkraftwagen’ (Guide to a fuel economy, CO2
emissions and electric energy expenditure of new passenger
cars), that can be performed giveaway of assign from all
dealerships, from Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH (DAT),
Hellmuth-Hirth-Str. 1, 73760 Ostfildern-Scharnhausen and during https://www.dat.de/co2/.